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The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America
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The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America
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by Albert Marrin
Sales Rank : 364207
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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile December 27, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0525476598
ISBN-13: 978-0525476597
Product Dimensions:
10.1 x 8.1 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
From Booklist
Along the lines of his George Washington and the Founding of a Nation (2001), Marrin offers a twin portrait of American society in a time of profound change and the life of a figure so dominant in the politics and self-image of the time that he has become an enduring symbol. A polymath who published some 18 million words and was the first American to receive a Nobel Prize, Roosevelt (no one who knew him well called him "Teddy") was also given to dancing exultantly around the big game he slaughtered, and to blasting (in print) the presidents who succeeded him. Marrin gives him "a place in the front rank of our country's heroes," particularly for his achievements in environmental conservation, but also shows him acting badly—for example in the shameful Brownsville incident. Numerous endnotes and contemporary photos and prints add to this scholarly profile, which, like Betsy Harvey Kraft's Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit (2003), will give serious history students a solid grounding in the man's times, career, and forceful character. Peters, John
Product Description
We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst . . . but we felt the hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living.
—Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt is one of America’s liveliest and most influential figures. He was a scholar, cowboy, war hero, explorer, and a brilliant politician. As president, Roosevelt’s far-reaching policies abroad and at home forever changed both our nation’s place in the world and the life of every modern American.
Fascinating details and an intimate, fast-paced narrative explore the heroic life and complex world of an American icon.
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